Dream a Bigger Dream – and Create the Life you Really Want
I don't know if you feel the way that I do, but the older I get the MORE I want to create my life on my terms and I want to do it all out. There is an urgency to this that is palpable to me. I guess that I could take the approach that many others my age take and become more complacent and "slow down" but that simply doesn't appeal to me. Or retire-yikes! That would bore me to tears, make me feel obsolete and I would probably not feel real excited about my future. Instead, the opposite is...
The Joy Zone – What Lights You Up?
I believe that it is more important than ever for all of us to take stock of what makes us really happy and start making choices that keep us in our "joy zone." I know as I write this that some of you are saying "Ya right Marianne - that is easy for you to say but how can I do this? There are only 24 hours in a day. I work a gazillion hours just to get by and when I am not working everyone needs a piece of me so how am I supposed to "follow my bliss"? And to that I say - "You must find a...
Bring on Your Badacity
I recently finished doing a Seven Day Challenge for a group of wonderful women called Baby Boomer Woman-Now is Your Time to Fire Up Your Life and it was so lovely to watch these women start to do things that they had previously shied away from. One of my favorite challenges for them was called "Bring on Your Badass". I began by explaining the definition of a badass. "A badass is a really cool, confident woman who knows who she is and doesn't have to prove anything to anyone. She is not about...
Passion, Purpose and Joy, oh my!
I would like to talk with you about something that many Baby Boomer Women struggle with but don't often talk about. Somewhere along the way they lost their passion. It didn't happen overnight. It gradually dwindled when "more important" things usurped it-like paying bills, raising families and never ending responsibilities and chores. After all, there is only so much time in a day, right? How can passion survive in this atmosphere anyways? Passion was, little by little, squashed out by...
